Month: July 2015

The recent release of TeamCity 9.1 caused an issue with webhooks failing to be sent under certain specific conditions.
The Branch object supplied by TeamCity as part of an sBuild now contains references to the parent project, which then contain references back to the build which contains a reference to the Branch.

This creates a circular reference which prevented the Xstream library from serialising the webhook payload.

This would only present if one was running a build from a VCS that supported branches (Git or HG) and it was a non-master build (eg, feature branch) and the payload was XML or JSON.

I have worked around this by creating a simple bean and copying just the relevant parts of the branch to the bean which is then serialised in the webhook content.

I also found an issue with creating new webhooks in the _Root project. The “create webhook” message was sent to TeamCity when the webhook editing dialog closed, but the new webhook was never actually being created. This has now been resolved.

Currently, sourceforge is preventing me from adding new release files for download.
I therefore, think now is the time to move to GitHub for releases. The updated release (v0.9.35.72) can be downloaded from https://github.com/tcplugins/tcWebHooks/releases

As usual, any issues can be raised on GitHub or posted on the tcWebHooks bugs page.
Additional Feature: Double template rendering passes.
Messages passed to webhooks payloads containing ${variables} are now parsed twice. This means that custom messages can contain tcWebHook variables as requested in a comment on the blog. You can read more in the commit message.